Pamfilova announced a thousand DDoS attacks on the electoral infrastructure

More than 1,000 waves of DDoS attacks on the electoral infrastructure in Russia have been recorded. There were 124 DDoS attacks on the remote voting system. This was reported by the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova.

The CEC chairman noted that the attacks were carried out by well-coordinated groups of professionals using artificial intelligence. “The attackers used massive high-capacity DDoS attacks along with attacks on web servers and voting infrastructure,” Ms. Pamfilova said. Attempts were also made to target the telecommunications infrastructure of the Russian Federation as a whole.

The hacker attacks on the DEG system were also reported by Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission Dmitry Reut. According to him, fraudsters “are trying to influence” including the electronic list of voters, which is responsible for the issuance of paper ballots, for the identification of voters.

From 18 to 20 September in Russia elected deputies of the state Duma and the composition of legislative assemblies in 39 regions. Elections of senior officials are held in Mordovia, Tuva, Chechnya, Belgorod, Penza, Tver and Ulyanovsk regions. Polling stations are open from 08.00 to 20.00. As of 15:47 GMT turnout at the polls was 53.6%.